Placebo and Nocebo: Why You Should Carefully Prescribe Your Words

If you’re like most people, you’ve probably heard of the placebo effect. But you may not have heard about the opposite, the nocebo effect. In this post (and included video), we’ll explain what you need to know so you can

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What Is Covert Hypnosis?

What the heck is covert hypnosis? Why would anyone want to learn it? And is it even ethical? Stay tuned, because by the end of this post, it will make a lot more sense and be a lot less mystical.Covert

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The Agree and Repeat Persuasion Strategy

There’s a reason why the Agree and Repeat strategy is one of our favorite persuasion techniques. It’s a very simple, yet very effective way to ethically influence people. In some situations, it’s even guaranteed to work every time.If you enjoy

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Goal Setting in One Word

Goal setting is this big thing people often talk about, and not without reason. We can all agree that goals are important in life, right? A lot of people report that most of the goals they set at the start of

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How Understanding Chaos and Order as a Continuum Helps Build a Balanced and Meaningful Life

Life operates on a series of continuums. A well-balanced life has you living away from the extremes of any one continuum.  Chaos versus order is just one continuum. But we’ll touch on several others in this article, and if you

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How Incrementalism Can Improve Your Life (In 5 Baby Steps and 2 Warnings)

Very few of us stand up in the morning and declare to the heavens “I will change the entire world today!”  Even if we should, there are a number of reasons why that kind of declaration is unfeasible.  What if

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Top 5 Ways To Cope With Fear When It Strikes

In this post we'll give you 5 quick ways to help cope with fear.So, what is fear anyways? We throw that word “fear” around all the time. I’m afraid I forgot to turn off the stoveI’m afraid you’re mistakenI am afraid

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The Tony Robbins Model: Identifying The 6 Human Needs

Tony Robbins has been all over the world interacting with millions of people and listening to their stories. In this work, he began to uncover a pattern that answers the question: ”Why do people do what they do?” The answer to

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Two Ways To Lose Weight (Easy vs. Hard)

In this post we’ll discuss two ways to lose weight. One method requires a lot of effort and willpower. The other is much easier.  Pay close attention and let this be the few minutes of your life that makes all

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What is the Pareto Principle and Why Should I Care?

If we rewind the clock to 1896, we might see the Italian economist Wilfredo Pareto walking up and down the aisles of his garden observing that 20% of the pea plants in his garden were reliably producing 80% of all

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